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Newt Gingrich Has a Record That Beats Barack Obama's Handily

History shows that 2012 will be a great year for Republicans

December 6, 2011

About Judson Phillips:

Judson Phillips is the founder of Tea Party Nation, one of the largest Tea Party Groups in the country and the number one national Tea Party site on the Internet.

Perhaps the question should be how could former Speaker Newt Gingrich not beat President Obama? 2012 is going to be a great year for Republicans. Probably the only way Republicans do not win is if the GOP nominates former Gov. Mitt Romney or Rep. Ron Paul.

Newt is in the enviable position of having a good record to run on against a really bad Obama record and an environment that in many ways is a repeat of 1980.

When the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007, unemployment was at 4.6 percent. The economy had grown new jobs for 52 straight months. When George W. Bush left office gas was half the price it is now.

[See a slide show of Newt Gingrich's career]

Obama's polling numbers are in the low 40s now. Those numbers are eerily close to Jimmy Carter's approval numbers in 1980 and we know how that election ended.

As we go into 2012, the numbers look even worse for Obama. The only reason the unemployment numbers went down recently was that 300,000 Americans gave up looking for work. By next fall, experts are predicting we will once again have $4 a gallon gas.

Newt brings two amazing strengths to the election, which helps him incredibly. First, he is a brilliant field general. He understands history and how things work. He was the man who thought big and believed that the GOP could take a majority in the House of Representatives in the '90s.

[See a collection of political cartoons on the economy.]

His second strength is his amazing skill as a debater. When his campaign staff left him in May to go to Gov. Rick Perry's campaign, Newt's debate performance kept his candidacy alive.

Newt is a man of learning and of great vision. Not only does he know history, he has been part of a historical change in Washington. When Newt compares his record of balancing the budget in the '90s and welfare reform against Obama's record of unemployment, economic mismanagement, and corruption, Newt will not only be able to win, he will defeat Obama handily.

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Judson Phillips either doesn't have a clue or is a Newt PACer. The only GOP candidate that beats Obama head to head is the honorable Dr. Ron Paul. Judson can't debate this issue at all and chooses to insult the Texas rep and his supporters or simply block them from his joke of a for-profit website (Tea Party Nation). The fact that US News gives him ANY credibility is an insight as to either what they think of the Tea Party or their own vetting process.

Everyone must have forgotten that Newt supported GATT and NAFTA. Since then he's supported illegal amnesty, Barack's healthcare mandate, the stimulus, and more. (Newt praising Obama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJaImGbEclI )

He is what true conservatives call a Great American RINO and a perfect example of what’s wrong with Washington. He's even a CFR member and a globalist for all intents and purposes. Is this "old blood" really what the Tea Party is looking for?

I'm sure Newt went to Washington with the greatest of intentions. He had great ideas, but as he spent time there, he was corrupted by the glamor and glitz, the cocktail parties, being on the Sunday news shows, etc and he became the political elite. Now he finds himself in Global Warming commercials with Nancy Pelosi, goes on country wide tours with Al Sharpton, and backed Dede Scozzafava because she had the audacity to put a R behind her name. Have you forgotten how he insulted the Tea Party movement by telling us we were extremists for not supporting her?

Sure, Newt gets a lot of credit for 1994 nostalgia for being the guy that poked the Clinton in the proverbial eye. In reality, he had a four year run of success in the House, totally imploded at the end, and is a personal train wreck. He won't unite the party and has a host of built in negatives. Newt is a perfect example of what happens when people with low integrity are put in positions of power.

I respect his intelligence and I'm glad he has been in the debates. I've enjoyed hearing his jabs at the media and he has tickled my ears when he goes after Obama, so I hope he continues to be an influence within the Republican Party. But, he is no leader. He's just a former historian, speaker, and lobbyist who's never held a private sector job and never served in the military. He's going to be an after-thought in this election.

Chris of TN 10:11AM March 09, 2012

The underhanded acts of the current republicans in congress have hurt the republican party beyond repair. At this point no republican will beat obama.

Maybe a progressive or independant but certainly not a republican. It really does not matter who runs they will lose.

Annabella of OH 7:35AM February 16, 2012

A lot can happen to make voters vote either way.

I dislike man of Obama's policies,but I like his marriage.

More than I dislike Newt's treatment of his 2 earlier wives is how the Catholic Church gives annullments to people who want to shed wives.

I think this marriage hurts the Catholic Church who does not want Obama's policies implemented on a number of issues. Ironic, of course.

The vote in SC is also a vote against the Media trying to manipulte everyone all the time. Newt got a boost from calling them on it, so this vote at heart may have been a vote not for Newt as the best man for President but as the man who took on the Press.

Court of VA 6:08PM January 22, 2012

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